9th London International Eating Disorders Conference 2009

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Dear Colleagues

We take great pleasure in once again inviting you to join us for the 9th London International Conference on Eating Disorders. Each of the past eight conferences exceeded our expectations in terms of quality of presentations and numbers attending. For Eating Disorders 2007 we had over 650 participants from all over the world and we are understandably proud of just how international the meeting has become.

We are confident that Eating Disorders 2009 will be even more exciting and are delighted that so many distinguished clinicians and researchers will be joining the faculty. As usual the very latest ideas and research findings will be presented by leaders in the field. There will be plenary sessions, clinical workshops, international platforms, short paper sessions and posters. Sessions are planned on the following themes: i.) team work, ii.) nutrition, iii.) treatment and technology, iv.) comorbidity, v.) perfectionism, vi.) in-patient CBT, vii.) multi family therapy and viii.) compulsive exercise.

This year the conference will be held at one of London’s premier academic institutions, The Institute of Education, University of London. Situated in the heart of London’s sightseeing and shopping districts with the British Museum a few paces away and close proximity to all mainline connections, it will allow you to make the most of your visit to London whilst at the conference. As always we will be hosting social gatherings on the first and second nights of the conference.

We look forward to offering you our personal welcome to London in March 2009.

Very warm regards

Rachel Bryant-Waugh & Bryan Lask - Conference Convenors

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CONFERENCE ORGANISERS AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The programme has been put together by an international committee of experts in eating disorders.

Presenters will include: Andrew Hill, Jim Lock, Tracey Wade, Anna Keski-Rahkonen, Christopher Fairburn, Stephen Wonderlich, Bryan Lask, Rachel Bryant-Waugh and many other internationally renowned speakers.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The conference will appeal to all medical and healthcare professionals who are interested in the assessment and treatment of people with eating disorders and who would like to learn more about the very latest developments in this field.

This will include:
• Counsellors
• Dieticians
• Family Therapists
• General Practitioners
• Family Physicians
• Nurses
• Occupational Therapists
• Paediatricians
• Physicians
• Physiotherapists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Social workers
• Self help group facilitators
• Students
• Trainees
• Teachers
• Youth workers

DAY 1 – Tuesday, 31st March 2009

08.00-09.30	Registration and refreshments
09.30-09.45	Welcome and opening remarks: Rachel Bryant-Waugh (UK) and Bryan Lask (UK/Nor)
09.45-10.30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prevention of eating disorders and obesity Andrew Hill (UK)
10.30-11.00	Refreshments and exhibition viewing
11.00-12.30	PLENARY 1: The gaps in our knowledge Chair: Christopher Fairburn (UK) i. Epidemiology Anna Keski-Rahkonen (Fin) ii. Aetiology Tracey Wade (Aus) iii. Treatment James E. Mitchell (USA)
12.30-14.00	Lunch and exhibition viewing
12.45-13.45	SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP a) Classification: towards a new taxonomy Convenor: Beth Watkins (UK) b) Group therapies: strategies and survival skills Convenor: Carolyn Costin (USA)
14.00-15.30	CONCURRENT SESSION 1 1: Training track 1 (part 1) Family treatment of adolescent eating disorders James Lock (USA) 2: Training track 2 (part 1) Eating disorders and co-morbidity Christopher G. Fairburn, Rebecca Murphy, Suzanne Straebler (UK) 3: International platform: Latin America Convenors: Cecile Rausch Herscovici (Arg), Angélica de Medeiros Claudino (Bra) 4: Preparing for recovery: a CBT group approach Emma Corstophine, Richard Lawes (UK) 5: Getting team-work to work: from conflict and confusion to harmony and understanding Trine Wiig (Nor), Lisa Lewer (UK), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor) 6: The efficacy of cognitive analytic therapy with AN and BN Claire Tanner, Alison Carolan (UK)
15.30-16.00	Refreshments and exhibition viewing
16.00-17.30	CONCURRENT SESSION 2 1: Training track 1 (part 2) Family treatment of adolescent eating disorders James Lock (USA) 2: Training track 2 (part 2) Co-morbidity Christopher Fairburn, Rebecca Murphy, Suzanne Straebler (UK) 3: International platform: Benelux Controversial issues in the Benelux Convenors: Hans Wijbrand Hoek (Bel), Walter Vandereycken (Ned) 4: Implementing cognitive behaviour therapy with patients with chronic eating disorders Bryony Bamford, Victoria Mountford (UK) 5: All in the mind? An accessible introduction to the clinical implications of advances in the neuroscience of eating disorders Ian Frampton (UK/Nor), Graham Redgrave (USA) 6: The treatment of morbidly obese patients with binge eating disorder: CBT, bariatric surgery or both? Jane Evans, Claire Gallagher, Helen Gray (UK)
17.30-19.30	Official poster viewing and drinks reception Drinks reception and live jazz with Misbehavin'

DAY 2 – Wednesday, 1st April 2009

08.30-09.15	Registration, refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
09.15-10.45	PLENARY 2: Clinical applications of neuroscience Chair: Stephen A. Wonderlich (USA) i. A neurobiological and environmental perspective on impulsivity and compulsivity in eating disorders Howard Steiger (Can) ii. Latest developments in neuropsychology Joanna Steinglass (USA) iii. A neuroscience conceptual model and its clinical application Bryan Lask (UK/Nor)
10.45-11.15	Refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
11.15-12.45	SHORT PAPER SESSION 1: Medical issues
	Chair: Dasha Nicholls (UK)
	i. Ghrelin, an appetite neurohormone, is different in women who binge eat Kathryn Taylor, Peter Joyce, Virginia McIntosh, Jennifer Jordan (NZ) ii. The relationship between resting energy expenditure and leptin levels in patients with anorexia nervosa during re-feeding Katharina Buehren, Kristian Holtkamp, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann (Ger) iii. Physical activity and aerobic capacity in eating disordered patients and controls Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, Jan Rosenvinge, Øyvind Rø, Asle Hoffart, Egil Martinsen (Nor) iv. Do thyroid hormones mediate the effects of starvation on mood in adolescent girls with eating disorders? Ingemar Swenne, Agneta Rosling (Swe) v. Adverse events and biochemical side effect profile of olanzapine in adolescent girls with eating disorders Agneta Rosling, Ingemar Swenne (Swe)
	SHORT PAPER SESSION 2: Neuroscience
	Chair: Iris Penner (Che)
	i. A global neuropsychological assessment in eating disorders: first findings from the Ravello Profile collaboration Ian Frampton (UK/Nor), Beth Watkins (UK), Mark Rose (UK/Nor), Jennifer Davis (UK), Maria Øverås (Nor), Kristin Stedal (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor) ii. Social cognitive functioning and specific cognitive deficits in anorexic patients Maria Øverås (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor), Nils Inge Landrø (Nor), Stine Laberg (Nor), Liv Sand (Nor) iii. Is there a relationship between body checking and central coherence in anorexia nervosa? Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, Jan Rosenvinge, Øyvind Rø, Asle Hoffart, Egil Martinsen (Nor) iv. Structural brain development in juvenile patients with anorexia nervosa before and after weight recovery Kerstin Konrad, Verena Vorhold, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann (Ger) v. Testing the Insula Hypothesis: first findings Ian Frampton (UK/Nor), Bjorn-Christian Østberg (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor)
	SHORT PAPER SESSION 3: Qualitative research i. Perceived socio-cultural expectations in the lives of teenage girls with an eating disorder: a phenomenographic study Sanna Aila Gustafsson, Birgitta Edlund, Lars Kjellin, Claes Norring (Swe) ii. A grounded theory exploration of the onset of anorexia in adolesence Nina Koruth, Charlotte Nevison, Matthias Schwannauer (UK) iii. Components of a family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa from the patients’ perspective: a qualitative study Cecile Rausch Herscovici, Irina Kovalskys, Fernando Torrente (Arg) iv. Perilous recovering: recovery from the perspective of individuals with experience of anorexia nervosa and implications for professionals Ciarán Newell (UK) v. Job satisfaction of nurses on eating disorder units Trine Wiig (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor)
	SHORT PAPER SESSION 4: Teams, treatment and outcome
	Chair: David Wood (UK)
	i. The relationship between suicide risk and BMI in the obese range: a systematic review Alexandra Pitman (UK) ii. Transdiagnostic outcome of eating disorders: a 30 months follow-up on 659 patients Janne Lund Helverskov, Loa Clausen, Kristian Rokkedal, Ole Mors, Morten Frydenberg, Per Hove Thomsen (Den) iii. The application of the recovery model to the eating disorders Victoria Mountford, Ewa Zadeh, Christine Wright, William Boland, Alexia Demetriou, Stephen Gillard, Michael Kavuma, Gill Mezey, Kati Turner, Penelope Turton, Sarah White (UK) iv. It works for you, will it work for us? Applying the motivational model to team working Alysun Jones, Christa Schreiber-Kounine (UK) v. A model of comprehensive care system by paediatric hospitals for teenage children with anorexia nervosa in Japan Hisako Watanabe, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Takashi Esaki, Mitsuaki, Tokumura, Mikako Inokuchi, Takashi Takahashi (Jap)
	SHORT PAPER SESSION 5: Co-morbidity / psychopathology
	Chair: Walter Vandereycken (Bel)
	i. Are Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder Traits and Perfectionism Traits associated with Eating Disturbances in a Non-Clinical Sample of Adult Males? Georgina Hartley (UK) ii. Risk factors for clinically significant importance of shape and weight and disordered eating behaviours Tracey Wade (Aus) iii. Post-traumatic stress symptoms in mothers of daughters with anorexia nervosa Penny Hazell, Antje Horsch, Rachel Woolrich (UK) iv. Adolescents with fluctuating symptoms of eating disorders Lea Hautala, Jouni Junnila, Hans Helenius, Aija-Mari Väänänen, Pirjo-Riitta Liuksila, Hannele Räihä, Maritta Välimäki, Simo Saarijärvi(Fin) v. Personality disorder and outcome in bulimia nervosa Sarah Rowe (NZ), Peter Joyce (NZ), Jenny Jordan (NZ), Virginia McIntosh (NZ), Frances Carter (NZ), Cynthia Bulik (USA)
	SHORT PAPER SESSION 6: methods and classification
	Chair: Stephen Touyz (Aus)
	i. The problems with season of birth research Eirin Winje (Nor), Line Wisting (Nor), Stein Frostad (Nor), Vibeke Stalsberg (Nor), Anne-Kari Torgalsbøen (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor) ii. The problem of reliability in research with eating disorder patients Walter Vandereycken, Priya van Vooren, Frank Baeyens, Tom Beckers (Bel) iii. Psychosocial impairment due to eating disorder features among university women: a preliminary investigation using the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA) Deborah Lynn Reas (Nor), Hilde Kapstad (Nor), Øyvind Rø (Nor), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor) iv. Comparing criteria-based subgroups of eating disorders Janne Lund Helverskov, Birgitte Lyng, Loa Clausen, Kristian Rokkedal, Ole Mors, Morten Frydenberg, Per Hove Thomsen (Den) v. A pilot study investigating the short term outcome of Food Avoidance Emotional Disorder (FAED) Beth Watkins (UK), Bryan Lask (UK/Nor)
12.45-14.00	Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
12.50-13.50	SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Research and clinical practice: conflict or collaboration Convenor: Judith Banker (USA)
14.00-15.30	CONCURRENT SESSION 3 1: Training track 3 (part 1) Management of perfectionism Tracey Wade (Aus), Roz Shafran (UK) 2: Training track 4 (part 1) Nutrition: clinical implications and applications Melissa Hart, Anjanette Casey (Aus) 3: International platform: France Treatment and research trends in eating disorders, an experience in diversity Convenors: Solange Cook-Darzens, Catherine Doyen (Fra) 4: The first six sessions: getting CBT for the eating disorders off to a flying start Glenn Waller, Jane Evans (UK) 5: Activity and exercise: clinical implications Stephen Touyz (Aus), Caroline Meyer (UK), Lorin Toranis (UK) 6: Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT): from research laboratory to clinical practice Kate Tchanturia, Helen Davies, Caroline Fleming (UK)
15.30-16.00	Refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
16.00-17.30	CONCURRENT SESSION 4 1: Training track 3 (part 2) Management of perfectionism Tracey Wade (Aus), Roz Shafran (UK) 2: Training track 4 (part 2) Nutrition: clinical implications and applications Melissa Hart, Anjanette Casey (Aus) 3: International platform: Canada Does an interaction between the glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphism Bcl1 and childhood abuse contribute to risk for bulimia nervosa? Convenors: Leora Pinhas(Can) 4: Treating high risk adolescents with severe anorexia nervosa: dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) informed approach on an adolescent psychiatric intensive care unit Dan Shears, Walker Matsvaire, Sarah Robotham (UK) 5: Mentalisation-based psychotherapy for eating disorders Finn Skarderud (Nor) 6: Beefing up the family: how can we help families to get their loved ones to eat at home? Robert Lafon, Nicola Sherrington (UK)
17.30-19.30	Official poster viewing and drinks reception

DAY 3 – Thursday, 2nd April 2009

09.00-09.30	Registration, refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
09.30-11.00	CONCURRENT SESSION 5 1: Training track 5 (part 1) Treatment and technology Stephen Wonderlich (USA) 2: Training track 6 (part 1) CBT in in-patient settings Ricardo Dalle Grave (It) 3: International platform: Germany Convenors: Martina de Zwaan, Stephan Zipfel (Ger) 4: Building a therapeutic alliance in children and adolescents: creative use of psycho-education Charlotte Harris, Robert Lafon (UK) 5: How to assess and manage physical presentations and complications of eating disorders Ewa Zadeh, Kate Webb (UK) 6: Mirror, mirror on the wall: reflections on body image and staff working with the eating disorders Katie Russell, Victoria Mountford (UK)
11.00-11.30	Refreshments, poster and exhibition viewing
11.30-13.00	CONCURRENT SESSION 6 1: Training track 5 (part 2) Treatment and technology Stephen Wonderlich (USA) 2: Training track 6 (part 2) CBT in in-patient settings Ricardo Dalle Grave (It) 3: Building a therapeutic alliance in children and adolescents: creative use of psycho-education Charlotte Harris, Robert Lafon (UK) 4: Multi-family therapy: state of the art Ivan Eisler (UK) 5: Healthy boundaries in treatment: creating a safe therapeutic culture Frances Connan, Claire Tanner (UK) 6: Preparing for battle? Effective treatment of eating disorder patients receiving compulsory treatment Victoria Sullivan, Sally Leatherland, Helen Standell (UK)
13.00-14.15	Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
13.10-14.10	SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Neuroscience Convenor: Ian Frampton (UK/Nor)
14.15-15.45	PLENARY 3: Fundamental interactions: working with families Chair: James Lock (USA) i. Parent-child interactions around feeding and eating Rachel Bryant-Waugh (UK) ii. Family work with children and adolescents Simon Gowers (UK) iii. Family work with adults Janet Treasure (UK)
15.45-16.00	CLOSING REMARKS
16.00	CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

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